Andy Field
Professor Of Quantitative Methods
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Field is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Sussex with a strong academic foundation in psychology (BSc, DPhil) and roughly a decade of focused experience in quantitative teaching and research. Best known as the "Stats book guy," he authored the bestselling Discovering Statistics using SPSS (and an R edition) and the hybrid textbook/graphic-novel An Adventure in Statistics, blending rigorous methods with unconventional, engaging pedagogy. His research on child emotional development complements a prolific educational output that has earned multiple university and British Psychological Society teaching awards plus a National Teaching Fellowship. Based in Brighton, he combines scholarly credibility with showmanship—teaching statistics through narrative and creativity—and balances this with an offbeat hobby performing as a heavy metal drummer.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, 1st, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, 1st at City University (GB)Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), Psychology at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (73)
textbook10
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rstudio10
r9
shiny9
statistics9
linear-models9
feature-extraction9
variable-selection9
gmm9
statistical-models9
rmarkdown9
regression-models8
interactive8
computation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
profandyfield/adventr
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
adventr: tutorials in R for An Adventure in Statistics (Field, 2016)
Contributions:150 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
r-packagestatisticsr-programmingrstatsfield
profandyfield/discovr-web
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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